I want to implement the TextWatcher
interface for more than one EditText
fields. Currently I am using :
text1.addTextChangedListener(this);
text2.addTextChangedListener(this);
then overriding the methods in my Activity:
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {}
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {}
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count)
{
// do some operation on text of text1 field
// do some operation on text of text2 field
}
However this is working fine but I'm looking for other ways so that I can explicitly identify that in which EditText
field the SoftKeyboard
is currently focused.
Suggested solution in @Sebastian Roth's answer is not one instance of TextWatcher
for some EditTexts
. It is one class and n instances of that class for n EditTexts
.
Each EditText has its own Spannable. TextWatcher
's events has this Spannable as s
parameter. I check their hashCode (unique Id of each object). myEditText1.getText() returns that Spannable. So if the myEditText1.getText().hashCode()
equals with s.hashCode()
it means that s
belongs to myEditText1
So if you want to have one instance of TextWatcher
for some EditTexts
you should use this:
private TextWatcher generalTextWatcher = new TextWatcher() {
@Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before,
int count) {
if (myEditText1.getText().hashCode() == s.hashCode())
{
myEditText1_onTextChanged(s, start, before, count);
}
else if (myEditText2.getText().hashCode() == s.hashCode())
{
myEditText2_onTextChanged(s, start, before, count);
}
}
@Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
int after) {
if (myEditText1.getText().hashCode() == s.hashCode())
{
myEditText1_beforeTextChanged(s, start, count, after);
}
else if (myEditText2.getText().hashCode() == s.hashCode())
{
myEditText2_beforeTextChanged(s, start, count, after);
}
}
@Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
if (myEditText1.getText().hashCode() == s.hashCode())
{
myEditText1_afterTextChanged(s);
}
else if (myEditText2.getText().hashCode() == s.hashCode())
{
myEditText2_afterTextChanged(s);
}
}
};
and
myEditText1.addTextChangedListener(generalTextWatcher);
myEditText2.addTextChangedListener(generalTextWatcher);